SL10 wrote:Clean House of all GOP/Tea Party and Conservative Dems (aka Blue Puppies) all will be well then.

Only in your world Steven!

One would wish that Steven could actually live in the world he desires. Then he would find out what real oppression is.

See above posting.

In 2008, ALL NINE justices of the Supreme Court agreed that Second Amendment rights are not unlimited and that government may regulate guns. Read on it. http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/07pdf/07-290.pdf

Ki Gulbranson owns a logo apparel shop, deals in jewelry on the side and referees youth soccer games. He makes about $39,000 a year and wants you to know that he does not need any help from the federal government.

“I don't demand that the government does this for me. I don't feel like I need the government,” said KI GULBRANSON, who counts on an earned-income tax credit and has signed up his children for free meals at school.

“Most of the seniors around here are struggling to make it,” said BARBARA SULLIVAN, who lives on Social Security and relied on Medicare to pay for an operation.

“They're getting $300 or $400 tattoos, and they're wearing nice new Nike shoes that I can't afford," said BRIAN QUALLEY, who says some of his tattoo customers pay with money from disability checks.

Chip Cravaack during his campaign for Congress in 2010. Mr. Cravaack says he entered politics to lift the burden of debt from his two sons. Voter anger over spending helped him oust an incumbent.

He says that too many Americans lean on taxpayers rather than living within their means. He supports politicians who promise to cut government spending. In 2010, he printed T-shirts for the Tea Party campaign of a neighbor, Chip Cravaack, who ousted this region’s long-serving Democratic congressman.

Yet this year, as in each of the past three years, Mr. Gulbranson, 57, is counting on a payment of several thousand dollars from the federal government, a subsidy for working families called the earned-income tax credit. He has signed up his three school-age children to eat free breakfast and lunch at federal expense. And Medicare paid for his mother, 88, to have hip surgery twice.

In 2008, ALL NINE justices of the Supreme Court agreed that Second Amendment rights are not unlimited and that government may regulate guns. Read on it. http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/07pdf/07-290.pdf

dzerres wrote:Not shedding any tears here. At the end of the first term all these legislators are doing is running for re-election - maybe now they can concentrate on doing good for the people instead of what's good for them. As for "institutional memory" I guess the incoming freshman are just going to have to be nicer to the staff and a bit more humble.

True, however, it gives the lobbyist tremendous power. Legislators only have one part-time paid aid and at $10 an hour that is usually a student. Then they get new interns every year. The paid staff at the legislature is limited and only does some research, not policy. It is the lobbyist that control. Make no mistake about it.

So outlaw the damn lobbyists. What's the big deal. No one needs them anyway, and if they do they are too stupid to be elected to office anyway.

Yaakovwatkins wrote:Over the last 20 years amendments to the Colorado Constitution have severely limited the power of the legislature to perform basic legislative functions. Their power to budget has been cut by TABOR, Amendment 23 and others. And also term limits have created a much weaker legislature. The fact is that we have demonstrated with these amendments that we do not trust our legislators.

We now have a dysfunctional system where they don't have enough authority to do their jobs properly and we don't trust them enough to give them enough power to do their jobs well.

Wonderful isn't it. I just love having eunichs messing up the orgy (which is what government is). Better than having emperors like we had before.

You know a nerve has been hit when you have the term-limited legislators crying sour grapes about how they'd probably quit anyway, and you have the lobbyists crying because they will have to beg, pander, and bribe a whole new batch of legislators, and their staff members, next January. Boo hoo you politically attached leaches. Good riddance to the term limited, athough name recognition alone will likely let some of them snake their way back as senators. Unfortunate laziness amongst the voting populace.

RE: ???I think the people of Colorado lose when there's that much turnover," said Sen. Nancy Spence, R-Centennial, who is term-limited. "You lose institutional memory, which is so important."I have never held a ???throw the bums out??? point of view, but the current state legislature is pushing me there. Their failure to act on civil unions and 30 other issues prior to adjourning is a prime example of the need to erase the ???institutional memory??? Senator Spence finds so important. It has devolved into institutional ineptitude and intransigence. Contrary to popular opinion, not making a decision is NOT making a decision. In the case of our dithering legislature, it is simply an unwillingness to hold themselves accountable to their primary purpose: debating the issues and making decisions. When instead they resort to tactical maneuvers to avoid decision-making, it leaves everyone frustrated and dissatisfied. Why show up to work if you are going to do nothing for fear of the outcome?